From 17714d93ad51f622b105942fa06a7188a2126973 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 10:00:38 -0400
Subject: use ~1 instead of ^ for parent commit

^ caused problems under CMD.EXE; fix suggested by Nicholas Clark
---
 Porting/cmpVERSION.pl | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Porting/cmpVERSION.pl b/Porting/cmpVERSION.pl
index 7964b9b56e..95f695fef0 100755
--- a/Porting/cmpVERSION.pl
+++ b/Porting/cmpVERSION.pl
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ unless (defined $tag_to_compare) {
         $check = `git describe --abbrev=0 $check 2>$null`;
         chomp $check;
         last unless $check =~ /-RC/;
-        $check .= '^';
+        $check .= '~1';
     }
     $tag_to_compare = $check;
     # Thanks to David Golden for this suggestion.
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